"You wear a badge that says protect and serve. Who were you serving at this time?" Tanner said.

The WDSU I-Team obtained new, never-before-seen home video raising questions about what happened to Tanner's car and the man inside.

On Sept. 4, 2005, when most of the east bank of New Orleans was under water, Tanner was on the west bank in Algiers. He was stranded, looking for a way out when he stumbled upon Henry Glover, shot in the chest, lying in the middle of the street near an intersection.

"He was lying like this over the drain and there was blood leaking out of his chest," Tanner said. "He still had a pulse."

Tanner loaded Glover into his car and drove to an elementary school, where he knew police officers were stationed.

"When I bring him there, I was greeted with guns," Tanner said.

Tanner said police officers handcuffed him to a table.

"They went into my car and grabbed jumper cables, a tool box and a gas can," Tanner said.

Meanwhile, Glover still lay shot and bleeding in the back of his Chevrolet Malibu.

"They didn't check his pulse or nothing. When I bring him here, he still had a pulse. He was still alive," Tanner said.

Tanner said the last time he saw Glover and his car, a New Orleans police officer was behind the wheel, driving toward the Mississippi River levee.

"He had two flares in his pockets so his intention was burn the car up. He had the same pants I had on, with two flares hanging out of his pockets when he got into my Malibu," Tanner said.

Five days later, police officers from Pennsylvania found Tanner's car burned, with the skeletal remains of Henry Glover inside.

After Katrina hit, Officers Istvan Balogh and Michael Orsini were working security, guarding FEMA generators at an Algiers Point firehouse.

When they heard about the burned car with the body inside, they grabbed a video camera and headed toward the levee. What they captured on video raised new questions about whether Glover was shot again after Tanner last saw him.

"That there, that's a skull right there," one of the Pennsylvania officers can be heard saying on the tape. "This is a skull, and it looks like it was shot in the head."

In later interviews, both officers gave their professional opinion about what they saw.

"To be honest, somebody was trying to get rid of evidence, trying to get rid of a vehicle," Balogh said.

Orsini said he believed the body's skull had a bullet exit wound.

World-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht agrees.

"This is a clear-cut case of foul play and most certainly a homicide," Wecht said.

But not everyone agreed with Wecht's assessment. Orleans Parish coroner Dr. Frank Minyard's office took custody of Glover's body some time in September of 2005.

The coroner's ruling was that Glover's death was unclassified.

And that was it. Case closed, until new evidence appeared -- the videotape, and missing evidence.

"Sometime between when this video was made and the remains (were) found, the skull disappeared," said Rafael Goyeneche, head of the Metropolitan Crime Commission.

WDSU showed Goyeneche the new videotape of the burned car. The coroner's report indicates the skull shown in the video wasn't handed over with the rest of Glover's remains.

Journalist A.C. Thompson did extensive research on this case.

"Where did the skull go? Why is it missing? It could be someone took it as a grisly souvenir or it could have been someone realized it's important evidence and said, 'I'm going to get it out of here,'" Thompson said.

The new findings prompted the coroner and police department to reclassify Glover's death as a murder. And the videotape obtained by the I-Team is now in the hands of the FBI.

Both the NOPD and the coroner declined to be interviewed for this story. No officer in the department has been indicted or charged with any crime.

And though police and coroner would not answer questions about this case, Mayor Ray Nagin is. See what Nagin is saying about why it took so long to classify this case as a murder, tomorrow night at 10 p.m.

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